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Best Compact Cars Canada 2017: Top Models & Offers

juin 27, 2017

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Compact Cars are among the most convenient options in the market for the small-mid budget. Although usually with a MSRP under 22,000CAD and a leasing monthly price under 330 CAD/month (at most), there are "top of the line models" that can easily compete with base models of some luxury manufacturers. Following, my list of the "Best Compact Cars" available in Canada.

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Best Compact Cars Canada List: Where to start from?

First, you need to define what are you specifically looking for: There are many options of Compact Cars, that go from either Coupe variants to hatchbacks and sedans. Exploring the market is the first important step. You need to be aware of what the market is available.

Canada's Top 2017 Manual Compact Cars

Best Compact Cars Canada 2017: Nissan Sentra

The 2017 Nissan Sentra Manual is one of the best choices by far of manual vehicles in Canada. Model overall sales reached 14,281 sales in Canada during 2016 and 214,709 in the U.S.

I personally love manual cars. During many years that is what I drove and the actual "sporty way" you experience while at the wheel, is unique. I wouldn't suggest one for the day-to-day, but surely for enjoying the nice weather out there in the road.

If you are interested in a more detailed list, you can read the summary of cheapest manual cars available in the Canadian market, although the following set features the most popular ones sorted by price:

Canada's Top 2017 Automatic Compact Cars

Best Compact Cars Canada 2017: Honda CivicHonda reached, once again, an impressive number of Civic sales in Canada during last year: 64,552. In the U.S.: 366,972 units were sold during the same period.

Automatic Compact Cars are the most sold "kind of vehicle" in Canada. While 80% of people in North America prefer Automatic cars for the daily commute, this is definitely the range of vehicles where you will find the more available options.

While also "automatic", CVT transmissions were introduced in the region by most Japanese manufacturers (Honda, Nissan, Toyota & Mitsubishi) during the last few years for most of their top selling vehicles. 

Following, the list of the Best Compact Cars with Automatic/CVT Transmission in Canada:

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Canada's Top 2017 Luxury Compact Cars

Best Compact Cars Canada: Audi A3

The Audi A3 is very popular among Canadians. The brand was able to deliver in the country more than 30,000+ units from all models during 2016.

If you are looking for the best compact cars that rank among the luxury ones, then you are, once again, in the right place. Luxury doesn't just mean leather and beauty. It also means enhanced performance, driving experience, reliability, warranty, safety and many more things that justify the price difference with the more popular alternatives.

If you haven't ever had the chance to test-drive one of the vehicles from the following list, I strongly encourage you to do so and stay strong with your initial preferences after doing so. 

Additionally, to this list, you can do a full browse of all available full list of luxury cars in Canada.

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At LeaseCosts we love studying the prices and understanding how the market flows. Looking for your next car shouldn't be a painful process, as it is, in fact, the steps you will follow to solve a natural problem we have every day: transportation. 

Either if you are a first-time buyer, or you are just exploring, the most important thing is that you understand which kind of vehicle you can afford, fits your needs and what are the actual alternatives of it.

Have you ever experienced that feeling of "I wish I had known it before I signed all the papers..."? Well, we all have, and this is why you are here reading our blog.

Keep Exploring; this isn't over yet

And I mean it. Landing on this page is just your first step. I strongly encourage you to use our Price Explorer tool to get a more solid idea of what are all your available options:

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About the author

Jorge Diaz is a passionate car lover, winter driver & Software Engineer. For the last 10 years, he has built Online Solutions used by more than 5,000 companies across the globe. He founded LeaseCosts in 2016 with the purpose of simplifying and helping Canadians to better understand the complex market of car leasing in Canada. You can connect with him at Leantrepreneurship.com.

Jorge is also the author of Car Leasing Done Right: A Canadian Guide for Understanding & Optimizing Vehicle Leasing Costs, released on Nov. 5th, 2021. It is available at Amazon.ca